La setta

by Robert Swindells, Angela Ragusa (Translator)

Genres: Young Adult

155 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1997

About the author

Robert Swindells was born in Bradford in 1939, the eldest of five children. He left the local Secondary Modern School at fifteen to work as a copy holder on the local newspaper. At seventeen he enlisted in the RAF and served for three years, two in Germany. On being discharged he worked as a clerk, engineer and printer until 1969 when he entered college to train as a teacher having obtained five 'O' levels at night-school. His first book 'When Darkness Comes' was written as a college thesis and published by Hodder and Stoughton in 1972. In 1980 he gave up teaching to write full time. He likes travelling and visits many schools each year, talking and reading stories to children. He is the secutatry of his local Peace Movement group. Brother in the Land is his first book for Oxford University Press. He is married with two grown-up daughters and lives in Bradford.

Author description taken from Brother in the Land.

Reviews

[Toni Langley · Rating 2 out of 5]

About what you'd expect from a religious cult book. Bizarre, kind of cliche and a rushed ending. Religion in and off itself isn't inherently bad, practise what you like, but using it to hurt and/or control others... No. This book tries to frame the good and bad of religion but rushes through it, very stereotypical in places, bit boring, feels like a bodge job really

[Orla · Rating 4 out of 5]

An excellent story of the threat that unchecked religious fundamentalism poses to our society, the effects of grief and the conflict between parent and child.

[Gabriel Hudson · Rating 2 out of 5]

I was expecting a lot more. The concept could have been used much more effectively. Boring do not want